Mediatizing Taste

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Gwynne Mapes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Restaurant Reviews ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter begins with an explanation of “elite authenticity” in full, including a definition of the five rhetorical strategies of which it is composed: historicity, simplicity, lowbrow appreciation, pioneer spirit, and locality/sustainability. Using theories pertaining to media discourse and mediatization, the author presents an analysis of the New York Times food section, relying on a corpus of 259 articles (including restaurant reviews and top-viewed articles). Throughout her analysis she demonstrates how the aforementioned interconnected rhetorical strategies are not only indexical of what is considered “authentic” in contemporary society, but also essential to the construction of status based on a purposeful distancing from traditional markers of eliteness. In sum, this chapter sets the groundwork for the simultaneous (dis)avowal of distinction which is integral to contemporary class maintenance.

scholarly journals Media Analysis of News Articles During COVID-19: Renewal, Continuity and Cultural Dimensions of Creative Action

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mattson ◽  
Katie Mathew ◽  
Jen Katz-Buonincontro
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Online News ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
Dynamic Constraints ◽  
Definition Of

Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to adapt quickly, and to reexamine interactions and responsibilities toward communities in creative ways. This paper presents a qualitative media analysis (Altheide and Schneider, 2013) of 50 online news articles (Los Angeles Times and New York Times) published between March 17th and August 6th, 2020 using the key-words “creativity” and “COVID-19.” Informed by a definition of creativity as actions that are considered both “new” and “appropriate” (Sternberg and Lubart, 1999), articles describing a “creative action” were kept for analysis. These articles highlight creative responses to the COVID-19 quarantine in various domains including architecture, fashion, and faith. In this paper, we discuss the themes derived during this analysis- “renewal and continuity” and “the multidimensionality of creativity” which elaborate and contextualize a perspective of socio-cultural creativity theory and propose two implications of this study. The first implication posits that creativity was an observable, cultural response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second implication offers a broader concept of how cultural resources function as dynamic constraints or “affordances” within the Five A’s model of creativity (Glǎveanu, 2013). Discussion of further research through the lens of socio-cultural creativity is discussed.

Western journalism’s ‘Other’: The legacy of the Cold War in the comparative study of journalism

Journalism ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr M. Szpunar
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cold War ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
The Press ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Meaningful Definition ◽  
Journalistic Practice

In 1995, when discussing the critiques of the New York Times made by academics and pundits, Michael Schudson stated that the newspaper has never been anything ‘like the late, unlamented Pravda’. This comparison, utilized in a variety of ways over time, originated in the canonical Four Theories of the Press (Siebert et al., 1963[1956]). This juxtaposition, more broadly, uses the Cold War ‘Other’ to define what western journalism is, or should be, by what it is not. Building on the theoretical insights of Fredrik Barth and Edward Said, this article traces the construction of this ‘Other’ in the study of western journalism. Ultimately, the author argues that the use of this ‘Other’ in the construction of a coherent, meaningful definition of western journalism, and in the explication and justification of journalistic practice therein, constitutes a problematic guide in thinking about the development of journalism in nations that were historically part of this ‘Other’.

Paging Paul Krugman: Toward a Topoi of an Exemplar Public Intellectual in the Natural and Physical Sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-104
Author(s):  
Michael J. Zerbe
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
The Social

American economist Paul Krugman has become a highly influential public intellectual in the social sciences. The natural and physical sciences need a public intellectual like Krugman to make more effective arguments for the existence and urgency of climate change, the benefits of vaccine use, and other pressing issues. To demonstrate how such a goal can be achieved, this article presents a rhetorical analysis of Krugman’s public intellectual writing in The New York Times from 2013 to 2016. The substantial public impact of this body of work stems from Krugman’s use of rhetorical strategies that are both similar to and—more importantly—a departure from strategies used by other well-known public intellectuals in the sciences.

scholarly journals Immersive journalism: the factors of effective functioning

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
O. Kyrylova
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Functional Factors ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Object Of Study

The main approaches to the definition of the “immersive journalism” phenomenon is considered and its working definition is derived. This working definition incorporates both traditional and newest approaches to the structure-forming, technological and functional factors of the production of VR-content. There are the levels of immersion into the story are analyzed on the example of video–360 ° scenes (posted on the official YouTube channel of t The New York Times) in this study. The factors influencing the formation of the system of user preferences are studied. The results of vidIQ analysis of five the most popular immersive scenes are compared and presented. It tried to measure the presence in the virtual environment by the of the Witmer-Singer’s method. The study also used the methodology of actor-network theory and the approaches of Maria-Laure Ryan. The object of study are the most popular vidIQ assessment immersive video of “The New York Times” (2015–2017): “Walking New York”, “The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima”, “The Fight for Falluja”, “Seeking Pluto's Frigid Heart” and “The Displaced” as the one of the most resonant immersive publications. In this empirical material, the components of the VR effect are highlighted: presence, involvement, immersion. Each of the components is built up by the functioning of a few factors from the Witmer-Singer model. It’s determined that the components of the VR effect are not equivalent. The basis of the immersive narration is the effect of presence, supported either by immersion in the storu, or by involvement into the environment. The results indicate that it’s quite difficult to consider the whole complex of factors in the production of journalistic materials. In full, they work in making and consuming of not immersive, but VR-content. For the media, the VR technology is not yet a priority, and therefore they prefer to create a presence effect through the possibilities of influencing the algorithm of narrative deployment and the realism presented environment.

scholarly journals Evolution of Concept “Black” in the US Media Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Melnichuk ◽  
◽  
Natalia Saburova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Ethnic Inequality ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
Concept Representation

Media discourse is an effective tool for projecting and shaping the public perception of a certain idea or image. The article focuses on the linguistic and semantic representation of the concept “Black” in the American media discourse with a particular attention to how the concept representation has evolved from the 1990s to 2010s. The study employed corpus methodology (keyness, frequency, concordances) to analyze news articles from “The New York Times” and “The Los Angeles Times”, which were arranged into three corpora according to the publication date (1990s, 2000s, 2010s). The corpus analysis established a number of changes in the concept “Black” representation manifested primarily through the high relevance keywords and high frequency collocations. Dominant semantic components were identified in the concept representation in each corpus, as well as notable shifts in core and peripheral aspects within these semantic components. The analysis showed that although the semantic components ‘racial / ethnic inequality’ and ‘economic issues’ remain at the core of the concept in each corpus, they are expressed through connections with other semantic components which may vary throughout three decades, such as ‘culture’ in the 1990s, ‘education’ and ‘politics’ in the 2000s and ‘police brutality and profiling’ and ‘appearance’ in the 2010s.

“Contesting the Cynicism of Neoliberalism”

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Liu
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Exchange Rate ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Us ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Exchange Rate Changes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
China Daily

Abstract This article aims to expose the hegemony of neoliberalism in media discourse through a corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of the Sino-US currency dispute in two newspapers – China Daily (CD) from China and The New York Times (NYT) from the US. The findings suggest that while neoliberal ideology can be identified in both CD and NYT, it is articulated and appropriated differently in the two newspapers to construct their respective stance towards the issue. Neoliberal beliefs are found pervading different levels of discourse (i.e., thematic, lexical and grammatical) in NYT to construct a combative stance towards China’s exchange rate policies. However, the hegemony of neoliberalism can also be detected through CD’s ambivalent stance towards change and the seemingly contradictory evaluation of the impact of exchange rate changes.

Re-artification in a World of De-artification: Materiality and Intellectualization in Fashion Media Discourse (1949–2010)

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurélie Van de Peer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Structural Organization ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
International Herald Tribune

Through a grounded theory analysis of 1301 collection reviews from The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, issued between 1949 and 2010, the article discusses the shift in the themes that journalists employ to make sense of the latest collections. Contemporary journalists pay far less attention to the materiality of fashion than their earlier colleagues did. In the late 20th century they construed designer fashion as an intellectual practice. The article traces this shift to developments in the structural organization of the field of high-end fashion production, which today is involved in a process of de-artification, as the commercial aspects of the fashion system became more apparent in the later 20th century. In the 1990s leading fashion journalists drew on the new intellectual conception of designer fashion to engage in a process of re-artification. Hereby they seek to create an image of cultural worth for their object of criticism and for themselves, while they also seek to reinforce the long-standing but challenged division between mass market and high-end fashion.

scholarly journals THE LEXICAL-SEMANTIC FIELD “CORONAVIRUS” AS A LANGUAGE MEANS OF MANIPULATION IN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL POLARIZED MEDIA DISCOURSE: DISCOURSE AND CORPUS ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
pp. 188-197
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Gornostaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Surveillance System ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article is devoted to the study of the means of implementing speech manipulation against Russia in the American political discourse due to speculation on the topic of the coronavirus pandemic. In the course of the study with the use of discourse and corpus analysis it is proved that the lexical-semantic field “Coronavirus”, in combination with the name of V. Putin and mentioning Russia, might be considered as a marker of manipulation for its automatic detection in texts of the same topic. The material of the study includes articles of American publications (The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN, Foreign Policy), which widely use the lexeme coronavirus as a means of the opponent deligitimization: in one of its manifestations some negative characteristics of the virus are attributed to the President of the Russian Federation, in the other - Russia is accused of spreading fake news, covering up the real number of cases, the use of the pandemic as a cover for testing the security and surveillance system, glorification ofV. Putin’s personality before the election.

The expression of emotion in institutionalized legal opinion

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-635
Author(s):  
María Ángeles Orts Llopis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Express Emotion ◽  
Expression Of Emotion ◽  
Made In ◽  
Legal Opinion

Abstract The present work carries out a contrastive study of interpersonal devices between two corpora of legal opinion in English and Spanish, with a view to assessing the different use that is made in these languages of the indicators of emotion, evaluation and appreciation as to the ideational context of these texts. The antecedents of the present study are found in the Appraisal theory, which constitutes the interpretation of Halliday’s (1994/2004) Systemic-Functional Linguistics by the Sydney School. Through the analysis of an ad-hoc corpus of forty opinion columns from two prestigious and influential newspapers, El País and The New York Times, aims to understand how the use of the different evaluation resources advocated by Appraisal theory (Affect, Judgment and Appreciation) varies depending on the way legal opinion articles as genres are conceived in the languages and cultures under scrutiny. In other words, it tries to deepen into the different application of the prototypical rhetorical strategies used to express emotion and evaluation, through which the different ideological positions of the institutionalized press are naturalized.

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